This two-disc set entitled An Anthology of English Song is just what it says it is: a very generous collection of 53 selections drawn from 13 separate discs of songs by English composers from Stanford to Britten. Some were first issued in the '90s on the late Collins label. Some were first issued in the 2000s on the vibrant Naxos label. But all ...
If what you're looking for is a single disc to convince you that the music of Bax is not all bombast, ballyhoo, and balderdash, try this one. With Bax's early tone poem Tintagel, coupled with his Seventh and last symphony, this disc has the best of both Bax's worlds. And in these muscular and direct but deeply affectionate interpretations of David ...
Even though he was English-born and -bred, Arnold Bax was fascinated in his youth by Celtic and Nordic folklore, and was inspired to compose his most popular symphonic poems around Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Norwegian subjects. The most successful of these works is Tintagel (1919), a dramatically turbulent but also luxuriant orchestral ...
Maybe you have to be English to fully appreciate this disc. One learns from the booklet that the opening of Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 "evokes the sense of sky and space one feels in East Anglia." What details would have to be changed so that it would be evocative of, say, Bishops Itchington? Yet this disc, performed and issued by ...
The "English Rarities" heard on this disc by the Griller Quartet, one of the top English chamber ensembles in the years before World War II, were the three prizewinners in a string quartet composition contest sponsored by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1933. Would today's Telegraph, or any American newspaper, do the same today? The winners got ...
Like its larger brethren the double bass, the viola is often viewed as one of the awkward cousins of the string family when it comes to solo or chamber compositions. Instead, the viola is often relegated to the inner voices and focused on supporting rolls. While it's true that there have been plenty of sub-par compositions for the instrument, and ...
For all you fans of Eugene Goossens, the English conductor best known for his '50s recordings of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and select works by Debussy and Ravel, this disc will be a treat and a delight. It opens with three recordings of works by Arnold Bax, a composer with whom Goossens was closely associated: a madly passionate Tintagel ...
For lovers of English tone poems and fans of post-Romantic orchestral music at its most lush and expansive, these classic performances by Sir John Barbirolli are essential listening. Recorded in the 1960s with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra, the performances of works by Arnold Bax, Frederick Delius, and John Ireland have a ...
If this is the sort of thing you love, you'll love this disc. What sort of thing is it? It's an early 20th century Anglo-Irish thing; a Delius meets Debussy singing "Londonderry Air" sort of thing; a heroic horns, evocative winds, shimmering strings, atmospheric harps sort of thing; a yearning melodies, sensual harmonies, pliant rhythms, amorphous ...
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